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TROLLEY POLE GUIDE ROPE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL R. PARKS, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND.

TR OLLEY-POl -E GUIDE ROPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,713, dated November 8, 1898.

Application filed August 4! 1897- To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. PARKS, of Central Falls, in the county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guide- Ropesfor Trolley-Oars; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention suificient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

My invention relates to the form and construction of the rope and its appendages used to control the trolley-pole of cars propelled by electricity.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a section of a car, trolley-wheel, and pole, with my improved guide-rope attached Fig. 2 is a modification of the rope represented by Fig. 1, the trolley-wheel, and section of the pole. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the funnel, taken through the line 7% 'm of Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal view of the guide-rope and funnel, shown in section, corresponding to Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the guiderope' and funnel, both at the place of union, shown in section, which corresponds to that part of Fig. 1 which illustrates the same parts.

Similar letters of reference represent corresponding parts in all the figures.

The object of this invention is to divert from the ordinary course the oily filth that drips from the trolley-wheel and overhead wire in rainy weather onto the dangling rope, down which the greasy water runs, bespat- Serial No. 647,067- (No model.)

tering passengers and car with filth. For this purpose the rope is constructed as a flexible tube, which becomes a conduit to receive and convey the oily grime to the lower end of the rope below the body of the car. The interior or tubular part may be made of any water and oil proof substance.

Underneath the trolley-wheel W a funnel A is suspended from the trolley-pole B. The tubular rope O is so connected to thefunnel that the spout or outlet discharges the drippings that it gathers fromthe wheel and-over head wire into and through the tube within the rope instead of being free to follow down the outside, as is the case in the use of the ordinary solid rope. A collar D encircles the pole adjacent to the rope attachment to prevent the grime from following down the trolleypole. The funnel may be so placed as to become an extension of the rope, as shown in Fig. l, or it may be attached to the rope at any convenient distance below the pole, as

shown in Fig. 2.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A tubular rope with funnel attached as 'set forth, in combination with trolley wheel and pole of trolley-cars, substantially as specified.

'2. The combination of a flexible tubular rope, funnel, trolley wheel and pole, substan-- tially as specified.

SAMUEL R. PARKS. Witnesses:

CRAWFORD M. FAIRBANKS, CHARLES BoRnEN. 

